Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Llama 3-70B

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI

64.3

Rank #8 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 Pro leads 84.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for GPT-5.5 Pro and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 Pro and Llama 3-70B specifications
GPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index64.328.8
Released2026-04-232024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked1431

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
LMArena Coding—1206
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 73.3 (#10), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
DTBench96%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.07122.93
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
SimpleBench76.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
ARC-AGI-196.5%—
CritPt30.6%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1195
LMCA53.9%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 84.0 (#10), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%4.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 478%—
LMArena Math—1218
MATH Level 5—22.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)52.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)39.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 64.1 (#19), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond93.9%40.6%
LMArena Expert—1149
MMLU—79.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English—1142
LMArena Chinese—1114
LMArena French—1232
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Russian—1159
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following—1194

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1174

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text—1221
LMArena Creative Writing—1210
LMArena Multi-Turn—1223

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Pro better than Llama 3-70B?

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Pro and Llama 3-70B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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